family grill'n'chill

  
okay, after two days of heavy emotional ups and downs I am now ready to write again. this week's monday was just horrible... Do you know the kind of days where you just think you should have stayed in bed all day? Yes? Okay, my monday was exactly that kind of day... The only thing that helped then was ice cream and cuddling up with my boyfriend in bed.

Tuesday was a lot better! our team from work took a day off. well, we didn't exactly do nothing but at least not in the office... the Hotel Zürichberg where we stayed for the day was amazing. beautiful rooms and an breathtaking view over the lake of Zürich. It almost felt like a mini-holiday.

But the thing I want to talk about after these emotional ups and downs, is a very positive thing: we invited my parents, my brother and my grandma over to our place for a cozy family grill'n'chill. meat from the grill, a traditional bavarian patato-salad, mediterranean tomato-olive-bread and a cheese cake with fresh strawberries helped to make the evening just perfect.

Some impressions for you!

I simply love my family and it was great having them all here at our place enjoying themselves. I hope we will be repeating this soon.

xoxo linskaya

Mood: satisfied 

Listening:  -

Reading: Erlösung - Jussi Adler Olsen

Watching: Special Victims Unit

Playing: -

Eating: Häagen Dazs Macadamia Nut Brite

Drinking: coke zero

ode to my feet

 
I had to write about my feet this week for a job at work... it turned out that I like my feet pretty much. I didn't even realise it until now... what I wrote almost sounds like an ode to my feet. 
 
and that's what I wrote:

 
Thanks, dear feet, that you kept me rooted to the ground and made me move at my fastest speed both together. Thanks as well for bringing me some good results at karate tournaments. Thank you for giving me the great sensations of walking over a still wet lawn after a heavy thunderstorm, of running through hot sand on my holidays, of balancing over stones in a huge stream and of climbing up trees when I was young. And thank you soooo much for giving me the opportunity and excuse to own 24 pairs of shoes that make me look perfect. We could neither stand still nor move forward without you... I guess, we wouldn't be that great without feet.

I hope it will be a warm and sunny weekend - including lots of hours of cooling my feet in a lake and running around barefoot.

xoxo linskaya

Mood: simply good
Listening: radio

Reading: Erlösung - Jussi Adler Olsen

Watching: -
Playing: -

Eating: -
Drinking: water

only the brave

You probably all know the "only the brave.be stupid"-campaign from Diesel. It's not their newest campaign, but it's definitively their best - at least in my opinion. 

I've never seen a brand before that had courage enough to use "stupidity" as their main 
characteristic. Simple and yet genious... seems like I'm into simple things latetly. Yeah, why complicated if easy is an option. Or why bother thinking if stupidity seems so much better!

See some examples for yourselves:

I guess I'll try being more stupid in times to come - let's see if it's easier :)

xoxo linskaya

Mood: motivated

Listening: Micheal Bublé
Reading: Erlösung - Jussi Adler Olsen

Watching: -
Playing: -

Eating: -
Drinking: home-made ice tea

lamb meatballs in pita bread

I've been cooking again! Well, I have to admit that it's been some weeks since I conjured this meal onto the platters of me and my boyfriend... but I haven't had the time to post it sooner. Well, and actually my boyfriend did all the meatballs, so these credits go to him.

The dish is actually pretty simple, but delicious. We used ground lamb meat and formed small meatballs - tho only special thing about these meatballs was that we added some feta-cheese. Furthermore, we made a traditional greek salad using tomatoes, cucumbers, feta-cheese, some onion and red peppers. From yoghurt mixed with fresh mint leaves and some salt and pepper we also made a zaziki/raita-kind of sauce.
   
Obviously, we needed some bread as well. We used a simple pizza-dough with wholeweat flour and formed four small pizzas that were later slized open horizontally - like pita bread.
Just stuff everything in and voilà!

mmhhh... so delicious! I'm getting hungry again by just thinking of it...
 
xoxo linskaya

Mood: somewhat tired

Listening: to the clicking on the keyboards of my fellow colleagues

Reading: Erlösung - Jussi Adler Olsen

Watching: -
Playing: -

Eating: nothing - I'm soooo hungry though
Drinking: water